Western Bloc

The Western Bloc was the name given to countries affiliated with the United States during the Cold War. The Western Bloc was mostly composed of capitalist nations, but Siad Barre's socialist regime in Somalia went on to align towards the USA during the 1977 Ogaden War. The Western Bloc included not just the capitalist nations of Western Europe, but it also included US-allied regimes across the world and the British Commonwealth. Some nations like France would be neutral during the Cold War, but they would be pro-West and anti-communist. Many Western Bloc nations united in NATO, and the Western Bloc nations are, for the most part, still allied with the USA.